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Wireless on the precipice: The 14th century revisited

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Business continuity plans for the wireless world must address solar activity.

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Communications of the ACM  Volume 54, Issue 6
June 2011
134 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/1953122
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